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Additions old and new; reviews and a new Media section!
…2, both just released by Warner Home Video. I personally haven’t been sold on these sets, and Rand’s comments for both seem to back up my reasons. Like him, I… |
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A Christmas Carol
…and Beowulf have left me stone cold and lamenting this once great filmmaker’s descent into the Dark Side. Where was the innovative and visually ingenious director of the Back To… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…that had kick-started the re-emergence of Disney animation as a commercially viable art form. 1977 was a year of change at Disney’s. While the old guard were heavily involved in… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…with the quiet life, so the two join forces to get Tom back in and up to their old ways. In the same year, after a couple of attempts, a… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…closing of the film, especially old Pete Postlethwaite as the mysterious purveyor of magic crocodile tongues, which transform a single peach in James’ haggard old aunts’ backyard into a huge… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…applied to something less than ten years old, but I guess “Vintage” would be seen as being too “old” by marketing). Since these are basically older features, there’s no need… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special
…with interest in the Loonies fuelled by the feature documentary Bugs Bunny Superstar, Warners saw the potential in producing part old/part new specials that would include much more new material… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…the documentary, but further audio interviews old and new that add different perspectives on the events as they are shown to unfold. Waking Sleeping Beauty is already filled with more… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…fit of creative inspiration, pitched CBS, hungry for fresh shows, a new take on an old character they already owned. The old Mighty Mouse rulebook was thrown out, and in… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…guess “Vintage” would be seen as being too “old” by marketing). Since these are basically older features, there’s no need to spend too much time commenting on them here, though… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…product including the Winnie The Pooh soundtrack. Best of all, there’s a fun Pin The Tail On Eeyore fold-out game that follows the age-old rules of another donkey-pinning game I’m… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…a great selection of cartoons, this first disc can feel prone to resorting to the same-old/same-old in its depiction of the evolution of the character. As if to prove the… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…clearly being where the old-style Disney mentality leaves off and the Lasseter-influenced sense of old-fashioned fun begins. The initial Prep & Landing, at just under 22 minutes without commercials, certainly… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…slightly disappointed that it would revert to the old “go defeat the old wicked witch” routine. I was also, for all the talk of the Wizard arriving to save of… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…sequel story, Hook in 1991, that caught up with now older and less magical Peter that needed to reawaken the child within himself, in a film that buried its fairly… |
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Pocahontas leads new reviews, plus DVD Toons on Plague Dogs, Spongebob and Kim!
…Rosen’s 1982 animated feature {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/393 The Plague Dogs}}, which recently made its debut on a hard-to-find DVD: “It’s almost worth hunting down just to take in the gist of… |
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MacPherson on Disney DVDs; Cover artwork for Disney's Princess, Dogs
…Ultimate Disney has the cover artwork for Disney Princess – Become the Ultimate Disney Princess and Disney Dogs – Blue Ribbon Challenge, part of the company’s new Game World line…. |
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Breathed talks Opus, Flawed Dogs, Mars
…Fibbed Big. Likewise, he admits that the Opus movie is “wonderfully dead.” Nonetheless, Robert Zemeckis is currently developing motion-captured versions of Breathed’s Flawed Dogs and Mars Needs Moms! for Disney…. |
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Isle of Dogs gets PG-13 rating
Wes Anderson’s upcoming Isle of Dogs has been given a PG-13 rating for “thematic elements and violent images,” Box Office Mojo is reporting. The rating is extremely rare for an… |
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Burt Reynolds dies; All Dogs Go to Heaven star was 82
…Dogs Go to Heaven, which despite having a somewhat disappointing run in theaters became a massive success on home video. Reynolds declined to return for the 1996 sequel, but he… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…his haunting performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight and legendary comedian Jerry Lewis putting in the Old Hollywood career achievement appearance, while man of the evening Jackman held… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…DreamWorks, as a story supervisor. Occasionally he would dabble in comic book work for DC and Dark Horse and even still self-publishes his own. Here’s what he told us about… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…plus sides, at least lockdown has given us plenty of movie time, allowing for catching up on golden oldies and discovering new gems. Our new series of Roundtable Flashbacks aims… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…London Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are a happy couple, living in Regent’s Park with their human “pets” Anita and Roger Radcliff. When Anita’s old schoolmate Cruella de Vil learns that… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…to get a wristband that guaranteed me entry to Legends (though I was told that there was only one more Gold wristband left after I got mine!). So, with my… |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
Beginning with a short blurb on Cartoon Brew early this morning, the sad word has now spread that legendary Disney artist Frank Thomas, one of Walt’s Nine Old Men, and… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…father George, mother Jane, their teenage daughter Judy, and their six-year old son Elroy. Besides them, there is also the robot maid Rosie, and their dog Astro. Together, they end… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…Butch run off)! Presented from a Buena Vista re-issue print, this version looks a lot better than the print that was included in the Vault Disney release of Old Yeller,… |
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Eleven-year-old Thomas Adams on mission to 'Save Our Looney Tunes'
The Big Cartoon Database reports that eleven-year-old Thomas Adams of Tulsa, Oklahoma has collected almost 34,000 signatures at Save Our Looney Tunes, a website formed last month to keep Warner… |
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Four-year-old Scott to meet Disney princesses
The Rochdale Observer notes the touching tale of four-year-old Ella Scott, born with two holes in her heart, who has won a trip to see Disney on Ice’s Princess Classics…. |
